Accessory work accounts for the majority of training volume, and so watching it being performed reveals a lot about the athlete. This session, from the 2019 World Championships, was less than 24 hours after snatching 210kg / 462lbs and clean and jerking 255kg / 561lbs. Lifts Performed Muscle Snatch – 140kg / 308lbs Lasha Pulls …
At 36 years of age, Lu Xiaojun exceeded the World Record yet again in training. Clarence Kennedy graced us with some highlights from his last few months of training, and WADA has forced the IWF’s hand to start on the path of retesting 130 hidden samples. Timestamp: 00:00 – Intro01:06 – 130 Hidden Doping Results03:43 …
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This is a training session from the 2019 World Championships training hall, less than one week out from competition. Meso Hassona (QAT 96) worked up to a training lift in the clean and jerk at 220kg, the heaviest training lift from any 96kg lifter in the training hall, and a lift that only one other …
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This is part one in the new Weightlifting House YouTube series where we take you into the most competitive, most elite training hall in the world at the Weightlifting World Championships 2019. Each day hundreds of the greatest weightlifters in the world, and a small handful of the greatest of all-time, train side by side, …
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Two days before becoming a three-time world champion, Olympic Champion Shi Zhiyong (73 CHN) hit a session in the training hall comprised of heavy snatch pulls and snatch deadlifts, up to 230kg. One platform over was teammate Li Dayin (81 CHN) who completed clean and jerks, front squats, and snatches. By Robi points, these to …
Just four days before she competed for her sixth world championships title, Tatiana Kashirina performed a heavy training session in the training hall. This training session was comprised of multiple snatches at 140kg, multiple clean and jerks at 170kg, and a truly extraordinary double in the back squat at 255kg. Tatiana Kashirina is an Olympic …
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In 2016 at the Olympics Lasha’s 473 kg total overtook the best of Alexander Kurlovich of the Soviet Union. By the 2017 World Championships, Lasha totaled 477 kg, moving beyond the strongest ever, Leonid Taranenko, also of the Soviet Union, into the unknown. Lasha is his own Roger Banister, not only the first to break …
Whilst at the 2019 World Championships we filmed a full training session featuring the three world record holders Lu Xiaojun, Tian Tao, and Yang Zhe. Lu Xiaojun (81), eleven-time world record holder, Olympic champion, and five-time World Champion, worked up in the back squat to a heavy single of 270 kg, 35 kg less than …
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21-year-old world silver medalist Meso Hassona went heavy twice a day during the build-up to the 2019 World Championships. This is one of those days.
Simon Martirosyan, Olympic silver medalist and two-time world champion put on a show over the days before he went out and set a new world record at the 2019 World Weightlifting Championships. 110kg muscle snatches, 200kg speed back quats, multiple snatches at 180kg, and a 210 kg jerk, not to mention his incredible 199 kg …
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